Windows 10 Display Won't Sleep/Turn Off (Tried Everything!)
There are many posts about the display not sleeping when idle. It will not turn off after inactivity, neither from the desktop, nor from the lock screen. I've tried everything!? This is on a PC (not laptop) running Windows 10 Pro.
- Power & sleep settings (both AC and battery/DC)
- Enabled VIDEOCONLOCK via registry and set it explicitly to different values (under Power/Display)
- powercfg: restored schemas, /requests show nothing blocking display, set schema values via CLI
- Switched Lock Screen Settings to Slideshow to toggle off "show lock instead of turning off the screen" and then back to Spotlight
- Used DDU to uninstall all video drivers, and reinstalled the latest Nvidia ones using "clean" install
- Used DSIM and sfcscan
- Tried multiple screen saver settings
Does anybody have any other suggestion besides the "normal" recommendations as listed above?
SOLUTION: See my own answer below, but it was the combination of USB joystick plugged in AND Nvidia Geforce Experience overlay enabled. With either unplugged/disabled or both, sleep works again.
Solution 1:
It turned out to be a combination of 2 things (together).
- Joystick USB devices plugged in (in my case Thrustmaster HOTAS)
- Nvidia Geforce Experience overlay enabled
If I either unplugged (1) or disabled (2) or both, display/sleep works again.
Solution 2:
No mention if this is a laptop or not. I'm going to assume it is due to the "battery/DC" comment you made about Power & sleep settings.
What I do is none of that. I just set the power button to turn off the display when pressed and then manually turn it off when I walk away:
- Open Control Panel
- Power Options
- On the left panel: "Choose what the power buttons do"
- "When I press the power button:" -> "Turn off the display"
This isn't fool-proof; if someone hits a key or knocks the mouse (heck, even if the table vibrates by someone walking past it!) the display will wake back up.
All that said, unless you absolutely need the computer to stay on 24/7, just turn it off when you aren't using it.
...and if it does need to stay on 24/7, why is a laptop being used in the first place?
For a desktop the situation is the same: Just turn the monitor off.
Solution 3:
well for me it was the gamepad and also daemon tools and steam clients. once i closed steam and daemon tools the monitor was sleeping after 1 minute. so check what is open on your PC tray. hope it will help you.